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Hey, thanks for trying the demo.

Good to know that it works there as well.

As mentioned in the readme file, I don't know much about Linux so I'm assuming an "aur" script basically installs the game and probably dependencies as well?

I might install Manjaro in a VM and try it out there myself so I have more of an understanding about how it works.

If it's not too time consuming I could possibly start to at least semi-support that as well (and possibly include that script link in the install instructions), but we'll see.

Anyway, thanks for the feedback. :)

aa13q4 years ago (1 edit)

Thanks! :) Yes, it resolves all the dependencies automatically, here's the main script:

https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=zordak

I'm also providing zordak.desktop file for the system path /usr/share/applications/ to make it visible in the games list of the system menus:

https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/zordak.desktop?h=zordak

My bad with not clear terms: AUR is kinda playground for user install scripts. It's for the projects that are not in official community repos yet. And it's only for the Archlinux-compatible distros (such as Manjaro).

So, other popular linux distros (like debian or rpm-based) are not supported with my approach. They are using their own package managers. It's possible to write install packages for the deb and rpm based distros too using my archlinux files as a draft. I'm a bit lazy to do that, since I'm not using another distros right now. Maybe another contributors help too if needed :)

There's also AppImage format. I'm not a fan, but it's an attempt to make a standart for portable apps. So probably AppImage is also an option to provide a general linux install package for many distros.

Anyway, don't bother much, existing archive is enough to run and README covers all the info. Thank you for the game and good luck! :)

Apapappa4 years ago

Ah, I see.. thanks for the detailed information.

I probably won't be doing any type of packages, at least not any time soon.

And as mentioned before, I may play around with Manjaro for a bit and see how time consuming it would be to test on it as well.

I'm choosing Manjaro because:

1 - You mentioned it.

2 - From what I've read it seems to be a pretty popular distro.

I've got the KDE Plasma version downloaded so hopefully this version would be sufficient.

Thanks once again for the feedback. :)

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